And sting you like a hornet day in and day out. [crowd cheers] we ve got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn t matter with me now because i ve been to the mountaintop. i watched with glee while your kings and queens there are prospects for peace in vietnam, but no one knows when peace will come. i shouted out, who killed the kennedys? well, after all, it was you and me ohhhoohoo apollo 7 starts the final american push to the moon. 12, 11. . . Failure on this flight would all but finish us chances of reaching the moon by the end of next year. what s my name? five, four we have ignition. on the basis of the spectacular success of apollo 7, it will be possible now for the next mission, that s apollo 8, three americans in orbit around the moon on christmas. [song ends, cheers and applause] [crowd noise fades] i think we have some late word just arriving, and i interrupt to bring this to you. This is the latest disclosure in a report from national civil de
As we look at america, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flame. We hear sirens in the night. Yow we see americans dying on distant battlefields abroad. [the rolling Stones Sympathy for the devil] we see americans hating Each Other, fighting Each Other, killing Each Other at home. Please allow me to introduce myself mr. Nixon, im gonna sting you and sting you like a Hornet Day in and day out. [crowd cheers] weve got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesnt matter with me now because ive been to the mountaintop. I watched with glee while your Kings And Queens there are prospects for peace in vietnam, but No One knows when peace will come. I shouted out, who killed the kennedys . Well, after all, it was you and me Ohhhoohoo Apollo 7 starts the final American Push to the moon. 12, 11. Failure on this flight would all but finish us chances of reaching the moon by The End of next year. Whats my name . Five, four we have ignition. On the basis of the spectacular success of apollo 7,
that s it. new ball. shots are 2-2. got by him. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and fort. in all white country clubs but a new, young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially an african american context. does still persist in the world about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletes. i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketballs. and the challenge now is to convince young black athletes that the
that s it. [ applause ] 2-2. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and forth between white baselines in all-white country clubs. but a new young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced, and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially in an african american context. there does still persist in the world myths about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletics. some people think we are all brawn and no brains. and i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketb
Figures that black people looked to as role models. so we in the olympic project for human rights were advocating boycotts like kareem ab dull jab before did. we try to point out the futility of the olympics. some of the negro athletes said that you will have trouble mounting this boycott. i think it is a matter of educating people. to thinking politically. civil rights era was in full bloom. it was a new breed of black man coming. demonstrations such as thomas smith and john carlos did, shut down of racist institutions. nothing i would like better than to see it shut down completely. when i contacted arthur the